Lesson Y8-U03-L06

How Was the Slave Trade Abolished Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 9

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U03-L06, How Was the Slave Trade Abolished: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 9: Year 8: Slavery, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In what year was the British slave trade abolished by law?

    • 1787
    • 1833
    • 1807
    • 1834

  2. Which organisation was founded in 1787 to coordinate the national campaign against the slave trade?

    • The East India Company
    • The Royal Navy
    • The Royal African Company
    • The SEAST

  3. Which religious group sent the first big petition to Parliament against the trade in 1783?

    • The Mughals
    • The Tories
    • The Jacobites
    • The Quakers

  4. Which campaigner rode thousands of miles collecting evidence and interviewing sailors?

    • Thomas Cranmer
    • Thomas More
    • Thomas Cromwell
    • Thomas Clarkson

  5. Which MP led the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade?

    • William Wilberforce
    • Toussaint Louverture
    • Jean-Jacques Dessalines
    • Olaudah Equiano

  6. Roughly how many people took part in the sugar boycott?

    • About 300,000
    • About 3 million
    • About 30
    • About 300

  7. Which Black writer published 'Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery' in 1787?

    • Ottobah Cugoano
    • Ibn Battuta
    • Toussaint L'Ouverture
    • Olaudah Equiano

  8. What did the British Slave Trade Act of 1807 make illegal?

    • Growing sugar cane
    • Owning any land
    • Trading enslaved people
    • Using colonial ports

  9. Which practice continued legally in the British Empire immediately after 1807?

    • Operating slave ships
    • Atlantic slave auctions
    • Capturing new Africans
    • Slavery on plantations

  10. What did the famous 'Brookes' ship diagram illustrate?

    • Overcrowded human cargo
    • Ship sailing routes
    • Sugar storage methods
    • Naval battle tactics

  11. In what year was the British slave trade legally abolished?

    • 1800
    • 1789
    • 1833
    • 1807

  12. In what year was slavery itself finally abolished across most of the British Empire?

    • 1807
    • 1833
    • 1865
    • 1888

  13. How did the 1791 sugar boycott help the abolition campaign?

    • Banned all imports
    • Lowered sugar prices
    • Elected new MPs
    • Hit slave-owners' profits

  14. What primary material did Thomas Clarkson collect to expose the slave trade?

    • Military maps
    • Royal decrees
    • Factory tax logs
    • Physical evidence

  15. What external force was essential to William Wilberforce's parliamentary campaign?

    • Mass public pressure
    • Church censorship
    • Foreign military aid
    • Absolute monarchy

  16. What major omission occurs in older history textbooks crediting Wilberforce alone?

    • Misnaming the colony
    • Forgetting trade dates
    • Omitting royal decrees
    • Ignoring mass campaigns

  17. What was Thomas Clarkson's primary role in the British abolition movement?

    • Plantation owner
    • Prime Minister
    • Activist and researcher
    • Naval commander

  18. Which religious group played a major early role in funding abolition?

    • Puritans
    • Catholics
    • Quakers
    • Methodists

  19. In what year was slavery finally abolished across the British Empire?

    • 1833
    • 1789
    • 1807
    • 1850

  20. Why was abolition ultimately achieved through a wide combination of tactics?

    • Slave ships simply stopped
    • Foreign invasion forced it
    • Different methods combined
    • Only royal decree worked

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